[1237] It will be found in Beatson’s Naval and Military Memoirs, p. 144, and in the Amer. Magazine, i. pp. 381-84.
[1238] Conrad Weiser’s letter, Sept. 29, 1744, in Penna. Archives, i. 661.
[1239] Smith’s New York, ii. p. 71.
[1240] N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 22, etc.
[1241] Hildeburn, Cent. of Printing, no. 959; N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 289, etc.; Brinley, iii. no. 5,490. Stone, Life of Johnson, i. ch. iv., gives a long account. There was about the same time (1745-47) a plot laid by Nicholas, a Huron, to exterminate the French in the West. Knapp’s Maumee Valley, p. 14. Smith (New York, ii. 35) gives an account of the conference of Aug., 1746.
[1242] Lord John Russell, in his introduction to the Bedford Correspondence, i. p. xlviii., says: “Had the Duke of Bedford been allowed to order the sailing of the expedition, it is most probable the conquest of Canada would not have been reserved for the Seven Years’ War; but the indecision or timidity of the Duke of Newcastle delayed and finally broke up the expedition.” A representation of the Duke of Bedford and others upon the reduction of Canada, made March 30, 1746, is in Bedford Corresp., i. 65.
[1243] Harv. Coll. lib., 4375.25; Carter-Brown, iii. 1,161; Stevens, Bibl. Geog., no. 1,835.
[1244] Brinley, i. 61. Cf. Stone’s Johnson, i. 190.
[1245] Bedford Correspondence, i. 285. There was a treaty with the Ohio Indians at Philadelphia, Nov. 13, 1747 (Hildeburn, no. 1,110); and another at Lancaster in July, 1748, for admitting the Twightwees into alliance. (Ibid., no. 1,111.)
[1246] In addition to the references there given, note may be taken of a paper on the expedition, by O. H. Marshall, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., ii. 129 (Mar., 1878), with reference to the original documents in the N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 189, and in the Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 63. Cf. Bancroft, orig. ed., iv. 43. On his plates, see Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ix. 248; Mag. of Amer. Hist., Jan., 1878, p. 52; and Mag. of Western History, June, 1885, p. 207. A representation of a broken plate found at the mouth of the Muskingum River, in 1798, is given in S. P. Hildreth’s Pioneer Hist. of the Ohio Valley, Cincinnati, 1848, p. 20, with the inscription on the one found at the mouth of the Kenawha in 1846 (p. 23). An account of the Muskingum plate was given by De Witt Clinton in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Trans., ii. 430. Its defective inscription is given in the Mémoires sur les Affaires du Canada, p. 209. Cf. Sparks’s Washington, ii. 430. Other fac-similes of these plates can be seen in Olden Time, p. 288; N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 611; Egle’s Pennsylvania (p. 318; also cf. p. 1121); De Hass’s Western Virginia, p. 50.